46 THIRTY-FIVE YEARS IN THE EAST. 



lies hidden. Allard died at Peshawur, and was buried at 

 Lahore ; and Achilles returned from France to Lahore, 

 where he also died, and was buried in the cemetery, near to 

 General Allard's own tomb, which was in his adjacent 

 garden. 



I ventured to perform an operation, and that by force, 

 for the boy made an obstinate resistance, when I placed him 

 on a sofa. General Allard holding his arras and General 

 Ventura his feet, while I made a cut along the fistulous sore^ 

 which caused him to be senseless for the following thirty- 

 six hours, and to suffer with severe fever. My assiduous 

 attendance accelerated the radical cure of the fistula, his 

 strength visibly increased, and after a few months he re- 

 gained his original plumpness, and, six years afterwards, 

 when General Allard and his family arrived at Bordeaux,, 

 where I then was, I was astonished at Achilles' healthy 

 appearance. On bis returning to Lahore a few years after-- 

 wards, in company with Benjamin Allard, who went to take 

 possession of the estates of his deceased brother, and to 

 whom he officiated as interpreter in the Indian language, he 

 fell sick, and died under the treatment of the native 

 physicians. I was much grieved at the unexpected intelli- 

 gence of his death, and paid him the last honours, by 

 attending his remains to the grave. To encourage the 

 suppuration of the opened fistula, I employed a mild* 

 stimulating remedy, namely, cantharides infused in honey, 

 on lint, twice a day, applied to the wound, by which it was 

 soon cured. At the recommendation of General Allard, 

 shortly afterwards, Rajah Suchet Sing, the younger brother 

 of the minister, requested me to accompany him into the 

 mountains, to attend him there professionally, to which I 

 readily agreed, as, in consequence of my recent illness, I 

 was very weak, and the summer heat of Lahore was 

 intolerable. Besides that, my friends, the generals, advised 

 me to accept the offer on account of the great influence the 

 young Rajah Saheb possessed as one of the first personages 

 at the court, and as by curing him I should establish] my 

 reputation. 



